Posted by
Rich from Paso on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:26:29 PM
One of the things I think is missed by everyone is the fact that the CFLs do not reduce demand or the amount of power generated. The misconception put forth by liberal Global Warming Doomsday Cultists is that if we replace every incandescent bulb with a CFL we will reduce the need for electricity because the bulbs are more efficient. That logic is completely backwards. A power plant produces power, period. It does not produce power based on the demands of the consumer. If it did, we would not experience brown outs during the summer. If CFLs, due to their efficiencies, created an unused surplus of electricity, the power plants would not produce less power to eliminate the surplus. The power companies would just sell that excess power to other markets in the electrical grid to offset inefficiencies in production or usage elsewhere. My point is that the CFL is completely useless in reducing in any real way, shape, matter or form the perceived damage of the incandescent bulb because the power plants producing the power are still running at the same rates and burning the coal to produce the electricity. The push for CFLs is exactly the same demand side mentality that the liberals use for their demand side tax policy. If liberal eco-warriors attacked the GCC issue from a supply side, we would have ten new nuclear power plants being built a year and coal-fired plants would be phased out. Instead we are treated to a liberal "solution" that is in the end much worse than the original problem, which is another hallmark of liberal "solutions" to problems.